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Biocrusts positively affect the soil water balance in semiarid ecosystems

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(2016) Estelle Couradeau et al.   Nature Communications

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Differences in thallus chemistry are related to species-specific effects of biocrust-forming lichens on soil nutrients and microbial communities

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Climate change and physical disturbance cause similar community shifts in biological soil crusts

(2015) Scott Ferrenberg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biocrusts modulate warming and rainfall exclusion effects on soil respiration in a semi-arid grassland

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A Multiscale, Hierarchical Model of Pulse Dynamics in Arid-Land Ecosystems

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Simulated climate change reduced the capacity of lichen-dominated biocrusts to act as carbon sinks in two semi-arid Mediterranean ecosystems

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Vascular Plants and Biocrusts Modulate How Abiotic Factors Affect Wetting and Drying Events in Drylands

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Direct and indirect impacts of climate change on microbial and biocrust communities alter the resistance of the N cycle in a semiarid grassland

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Inferring the impact of rainfall gradient on biocrusts’ developmental stage and thus on soil physical structures in sand dunes

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(2013) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Evidence of current impact of climate change on life: a walk from genes to the biosphere

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Hydrology in a patterned landscape is co-engineered by soil-disturbing animals and biological crusts

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The effect of biocrusts on evaporation from sand dunes in the Negev Desert

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Increased temperature and altered summer precipitation have differential effects on biological soil crusts in a dryland ecosystem

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Runoff at contrasting scales in a semiarid ecosystem: A complex balance between biological soil crust features and rainfall characteristics

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Warming reduces the growth and diversity of biological soil crusts in a semi-arid environment: implications for ecosystem structure and functioning

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Warming and increased precipitation frequency on the Colorado Plateau: implications for biological soil crusts and soil processes

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Changes to dryland rainfall result in rapid moss mortality and altered soil fertility

(2012) Sasha C. Reed et al.   Nature Climate Change

Crust Composition and Disturbance Drive Infiltration Through Biological Soil Crusts in Semiarid Ecosystems

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Experimental climate warming decreases photosynthetic efficiency of lichens in an arid South African ecosystem

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Temporal and spatial variation in how vegetation alters the soil moisture response to climate manipulation

(2011) Pierre Liancourt et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Carbon exchange in biological soil crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: implications for global change

(2010) EDMUND E. GROTE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Biological soil crusts modulate nitrogen availability in semi-arid ecosystems: insights from a Mediterranean grassland

(2010) Andrea P. Castillo-Monroy et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Climate variability and change in the drylands of Western North America

(2008) M.K. Hughes et al.   GLOBAL AND PLANETARY CHANGE